Crimean range.

[ossy]

Any news about the Crimean range that was to get some additions this year ?

[Leon]

Any news about the Crimean range that was to get some additions this year ?

It'll be a full range revamp rather than additions, but it's been pushed back slightly while we re-do the Samurai range first.  We should be looking at the first batch of sculpts around August/September time I'd think.

[FierceKitty]

Japanese - please, please, pretty please with sugar on top, can we have a monk with a great big kanabo and one firing a musket? And commander figures for Honda Tadakatsu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi? And a real gun?

[FierceKitty]

And some more useful illustrations to hurry my promotion to shogun, and to inspire Japanese-fanciers.

[Leon]

Japanese - please, please, pretty please with sugar on top, can we have a monk with a great big kanabo and one firing a musket? And commander figures for Honda Tadakatsu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi? And a real gun?

I'll be putting up a sculpting list in the next few days, so any requests can be made there and we'll try to fit them in.

[Ithoriel]

I'd sooner have Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin than Honda and Toyotomi, for some action in and around Kawanakajima.

Of course, truth be told I'd sooner have Ii Naomasa or Ii Naotaka than any of those but that's getting pretty niche

[FierceKitty]

I'd sooner have Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin than Honda and Toyotomi, for some action in and around Kawanakajima.

Of course, truth be told I'd sooner have Ii Naomasa or Ii Naotaka than any of those but that's getting pretty niche

Not hostile to these (one of my forces is Takeda), but the two I've mentioned have spectacular helmets that are beyond my power to model.

[fsn]

Now that's what I call a thread hijack!

Simple query about the Crimea (which IIRC was the middle of the C19 in a bit of Russia) is filled with chat about Japanese monks.

[Shedman]

With regards to the Crimean War range I can't make up my mind whether 'd like to see the troops in campaign dress or parade uniform

[Chad]

I don't think parade uniforms lasted that long in the Crimea

[FierceKitty]

Now that's what I call a thread hijack!

Simple query about the Crimea (which IIRC was the middle of the C19 in a bit of Russia) is filled with chat about Japanese monks.

So sorry - (polite bow) - thread go to Kamakura now.

[fsn]

I have no interest in the Crimean War, per se, but it was, IIRC the first war in which telegraph, railways, steamships and photography were a feature.* I am, however fascinated by old photographs ... so here are a few to get your Crimean juices flowing - mostly by Roger Fenton.







French Zouaves ... I'm struck by how the French influenced US military styles a decade later.

"Well, I'm sure this is where we parked the ship."



*I am prepared to be wrong on that, but sorry ACW, the Crimea beat you to it by a decade.

[fsn]

So sorry - (polite bow) - thread go to Kamakura now.

Most gracious. Appreciation.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Influenced US military style, yup, but by 1875 US infantry were issued Puklehaubs..   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

And yes please to Uesugi Kenshin